Re: Virtual PC 7

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 13:34:45 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Stuart,
>
>If you mean your Macintosh OSX to be "my system" then your system is
safe.
>
>But if you mean "my system" to be the Windows computer running as a
>virtual machine, then it is excatly as vulnerable as every windows
>computer because it *is* a windows computer. Your virtual machine can
>become infected, but the contamination won't spread to MacOSX.
>
>-Jim
>Thank you for the info...I run and like my mac OS 10, the problem is when
I want to use finacial software on line. The financial institutions support
windows format, not the mac format. The Virtual PC makes sense to use.
My concerns are keeping my core data on my Mac safe and secure.

Thank you again.
Stuart
>--
>Jim Gordon
>Mac MVP
>MVP FAQ
><http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;
mvpfaqs>
>
>
>Stuart wrote:
>> If I install Virtual PC 7 on my G4 mac windows 2000, does the software
open
>> my system up to all the security problems associated with Windows? Is
my
>> email secure and my Mac OS 10 panther data and my windows 2000 VC
7
>> data?
>.
>

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